Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-111) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. The nineteenth-century clarinet and its music. An integrated model: Mozart's Clarinet Quintet. The age of virtuosity. Clarinet chamber music after 1850. The development of the clarinet. Muhlfeld's Baermann-Ottensteiner clarinets -- 2. Brahms and the orchestral clarinet. Brahms's orchestras. The character of the orchestral clarinet. The German tradition of wind writing. Brahms and the clarinet: early works. Mature orchestral writing -- 3. Brahms's chamber music before 1891. Aspects of style. Formal procedures. Chamber music with wind. String chamber music. The String Quintet Op. 111 -- 4. The genesis and reception of the Clarinet Quintet. Brahms and Meiningen. Richard Muhlfeld. The Clarinet Trio Op. 114. Clarinet Quintet reception, 1891-4. Brahms's Clarinet Sonatas Op. 120. Muhlfeld's final decade. The Brahms Quintet after Muhlfeld -- 5. Design and structure. Introduction. Allegro. Adagio. Andantino -- Presto non assai, ma con sentimento. Con moto -- 6. Performance practice. Introduction: the issues. Changes in musical taste. Muhlfeld's clarinet playing. The string quartet. Tempo flexibility, articulation and nuance. Later interpretations -- 7. The legacy of Brahms's clarinet music. Introduction, clarinet music after Brahms. The influence of Brahms. Max Reger. Robert Fuchs and his contemporaries. The clarinet quintet in England -- App. 1. A list of Brahms's chamber music -- App. 2. A review of the first London performance, The Times, 29 March 1892 -- App. 3. The mechanism of Muhlfeld's Baermann-Ottensteiner clarinets.